Remembering the South African War : Britain and the Memory of the Anglo-Boer War, from 1899 to the Present /

The experience of the South African War sharpened the desire to commemorate for a number of reasons. An increasingly literate public, a burgeoning populist press, an army reinforced by waves of volunteers and, to contemporaries at least, a shockingly high death toll embedded the war firmly in the na...

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